Installation

Installing Python

Download the latest version of Python 2.7 from the official Python website . Follow the directions on the Python website and the downloaded installer.

Additional instructions and help can be found at http://python.org

Installing Labtronyx

From Source

  1. Unzip the archive file.
  2. Open a terminal window and browse to the location of the extracted files.
  3. Execute the following command:
python setup.py install

The proper dependent packages will also be installed.

Notes

Numpy on Windows

Numpy is a mathematics library for Python that provides optimized math functions used by many of the drivers in Labtronyx. When installing Labtronyx on Windows, it may be necessary to download additional programs to install Numpy correctly. This is only necessary when the installation above fails. There are two options:

  1. Download the pre-compiled Numpy windows superpack distribution for your version of Python from the Numpy SourceForge page here.

    e.g. numpy-1.9.2-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe

  2. Download the Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7.

Pip

Pip is a Python Package manager that is included with Python beginning with version 2.7.9 and all version of Python 3. If you are running an earlier version of python, you will need to install Pip before you will be able to install Labtronyx.